Needle-threading device.



E. V MYERS..

NEEDLE THREADING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27, 1917.

1,261,271.. Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

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; ZZzza 7 .7afyeixs' ATTORNEY ELIZA V. MYERS, O13 BUCKEYE, WASHINGTON.

NEEDLE-THREADING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

Application filed March 27, 1917. Serial No. 157,827.

citizen of the United States, residing at Buckeye, in the county of Spokane, State of Washington, have invented new and useful Improvements in Needle-Threading Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for threading needles.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a device which is capable of either threading needles which are used by hand, in sewing, or in threading sewing machine needles which are attached to a sewing machine. In this connection, it is a feature of my invention to provide the device with a socket like receptacle for receiving the eye-end of a sewing needle, together with an outer wall portion adapted to be abutted against a sewing needle whereby at one end or one portion of the device, either a hand sewing needle or machine needle may be threaded.

A further feature of novelty consists in providing one end with means for engagement with a sewing machine needle whereby the device may be engaged with the sewing machine needle in such a manner as to register the device with the/sewing machine needle eye in such a manner as to thread the latter.

My invention'also includes a thread pusher which is adapted to be forced or projected through the bores in the inner and outer walls of the socket for the purpose of forcing the thread through the eye of a hand or machine needle in such a manner as to render the thread accessible to the fingers of the user.

My invention also includes a socket having outer and inner walls, the outer wall being provided With a thread slot through i which the thread may be engaged across and against the inner wall of the socket, the inner wall of the socket having a groove in which the thread may seat. This novel feature of the invention also involves the disposition of the slot and the groove in such a manner that the same will intersect the bores of the outer and innerwalls of the socket. However, structural portions of the casing or frame are provided with slots whereby the thread may beheld in intersecting relation against the inner wall of the socket without having the latter pro vided with a groove into which the thread may seat, the said structural portions of the casing beingslotted in such a manner as to hold the thread in intersecting relation with respect to the inner bore of the socket and between the needle and the inner wall of the socket.

A further feature of the invention consists in providing a casingcomposed of a body and a lid adapted to telescope in a manner to form a substantially closed casing, wall portions of the lid and body being shaped to form a socket, or sockets, one construction providing for sockets at opposite ends of the structure and of diiferent sizes, whereby needles of different sizes may be threaded by the same device.

In connection with the double ended or opposite ended feature, my invention includes a carrier on each end of which is mounted a thread pusher whereby the carrier may be reciprocate d in either of two directions. in order to thread. needles at opposite ends of the device.

A further feature of my invention comprises means for removably attaching the thread pushers to the carrier whereby thread pushers of different sizes may be employed for needles having different sizes of eyes.

Other features of novelty will be more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawing and will be more particularly pointed out in and by the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal. sectional view of one form of the device of my invention.

, Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. 3 is a View looking in the direction of arrow 3 of Fig. 1 showing an end elevation of the device.

Fig. 4: is a view looking in the direction of arrow, of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 66 of Fig. l with the carrier partly in elevation and partly in section.

Fig. 7 is a view looking in the direction of arrow 7 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 8 is a view looking in the direction of arrow 8 of Fig. 3.

Like characters of reference designate similar parts throughout the different figures of the drawing. p

In the particular form shown, 1 designates, generally, a frame or casing which is composed of a body 2 and a lid 3 adapted to telescope each other when closed. The lid 3 has top and bottom walls 4 and 5 which fit over top and bottom walls 6 and 7 of the body 2. I may provide the abutting walls l and 6 and 5 and 7 with off-set portions adapted to spring into coacting relation so as to securely hold the lid in position on the body 2. The interior of the casing forms a guide way and also the casing provides a housing for a reciprocable carrier 9'. The carrier 9 is provided with shoes 10 and 11 for engagement with the top and bottom walls 6 and 7 and also with sides walls 12 and 13, respectively, of the body 2 and lid 1. Thus the shoes 10 and 11 will hold the carrier to a linear path of reciprocation, and in a predetermined relation with respect to the casing. The walls 12 and 13 are slotted, as indicated at 1 1 and 15, and finger grips 16 and 17 project through said slots and are attached to the carrier 9 whereby the carrier 9 may be re-.

ciprocated in either direction from the position shown in Fig. 1, and whereby the fingers of the user may be applied to either of the grips 16 and 17, dependent upon the position of the implement.

Upon each end of the carrier is mounted a thread manipulating device and as these devices are identical in construction except for the fact that they are of different sizes, only one need be described in detail.

As shown, the carrier 9 is provided with a threaded extension 18 against the end of which abuts the head of a thread pushing spindle 20. A collar 21 is adapted to be turned onto the extension 18 to hold the spindle 29 in position. The spindle 20 is provided with a bifurcated or crotched end 22 for engagement with the thread, as will be presently described. At the other end of the carrier, a spindle 23, which is somewhat larger than the spindle 20, is provided with a crotched end 24: and is secured in position by a collar 25 to an extension 26. Springs 2 and 28 are interposed between the ends of the carrier and the end walls of the housing or casing in such a manner as normally to hold the carrier in the intermediate position shown in Fig. 1. Upon thrust being applied to the grips 16 or 17 in either direction, the springs will contract to permit of projection of the thread pushers to force the thread through the needle.

The lid 3 has an end wall 29 which telescopes over an end wall 30 of the body 2. End wall 30 is off-set, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 6, to form with the end wall 29, a needle receiving socket into which the eye end of a needle 31 may be extended. The socket is provided with a bottom 32 to prevent projection of the eye-end of the needle downwardly beyond a predetermined extent. The upper wall 4:, of the lid 3, is providedwith an opening 33 down through which the needle may be projected. In the outer wall 29, of the socket, I provide a bore 3% which is in alinement with a bore 35, in the inner wall30. The outer wall 29 is provided with a thread slot 36 which extends rearwardly in the side 13, as indicated at '37, on one side of the casing, and which extends rearwardly in the side wall, 1% as indicated at 38. This thread slot is diagonally disposed across the end wall 29 and it intersects the'bore 34. I may provide inner wall 30 of thesoclret with a thread groove 39, which intersects thebore 35, and into which the thread-may be seated across and against the inner wall 30 of the socket.

Thus as shown in Fig. 1, the thread 40 will lie between the needle and the inner wall 30 of the socket. Now therefore as the car rier 9 is thrustto the left of Fig. 1, the thread pusher 20 will have its crotch forced through the opening 35 and against the thread and the thread will be forced through the eye of the needle and outwardly through the thread slot 36, in such a position that it may be grasped by the fingers of the user. At the other end of the casing 1 provide a socket 41 in all respects similar to the socket just described, excepting that it is a larger size so that a larger size needle may be inserted downwardly through an opening 412 in the top wall 4:. 1 consider it a feature of noveltyto provide needle receiving sockets at opposite ends of the casing which are in such alinement with the thread pushers of the carrier 9 that the latter may be thrust in either direction to operate on needles of different sizes.

The device of my invention is also adapted for use in threading a sewing machine needle without detaching the needle from the machine, and T will now describe this feature of my. invention.

The end wall 29 is provided with means for engagement with a sewing machine needie to aline the eye thereof with the bore 34h and as shown, said means may compriseguide lugs a3 and it, arranged in pairs, one pair being above the other, and which are adapted to engage opposite peripheral points of a sewing machine needle 15 when the device is advanced into the position shown in Fig. 3, or in dotted lines in Fig. 1. In threading a sewing machine needle, the thread will be projected through the thread slot 36 but it need not necessarily be .ad vanced rearwardly against the inner wall 30, unless desired, as the portions 37 and 38, of the slot, will always guide the thread when it gets beyond the wall 29 and hold the thread in intersecting relation with respect to the bore 35 so that the thread pusher 20 will engage the thread.

Thus it will be seen that the inner and outer socket walls, at one end of the device, coactively function in such a manner that either a hand sewing or a machine needle may be threaded with the utmost facility.

It is believed that the novelty and utility of my invention will be fully understood from the foregoing description, and while I have herein shown and described one specific form of my invention, I do not Wish to be limited thereto except for such limitations as the claims may import.

I claim:

1. In a needle threading device, a casing having a socket formed of inner and outer walls to receive the eye-end of a needle and the outer wall having a thread slot for projection of the thread therethrough across and against the inner wall of the socket, the inner and outer walls of said socket having alined bores with which the eye of the needle is adapted to be registered, and a crotched threading spindle adapted to be advanced through the inner wall bore to engage its crotch with the thread and thence advanced with the thread through the needle eye and through the outer wall bore thereby rendering the thread accessible to the fingers of the user, substantially as described.

52. In a needle-threading device, a casing having a socket formed of inner and outer walls to receive the eye-end of a needle and the outer wall having a thread slot for projection of the thread through the outer wall and across and against the inner wall of the socket, the inner and outer walls of said socket having alined bores with which the eye of the needle is adapted to be registered and said bore intersecting said thread slot, and a needle threader adapted to be advanced through the inner wall bore to engage the thread and force the same through the eye of the needle and outwardly through the bore of the outer wall of the socket thereby rendering the thread accessible to the lingers of the user, substantially as described.

3. In a needle threading device, a casing having a socket formed of inner and outer walls to receive the eye-end of a needle and the outer wall having a thread slot for passage of the thread therethrough, the inner wall having a thread groove extending across the face thereof to receive the thread and guide walls for guiding the thread into the groove of the inner wall, the inner and outer walls of said socket having alined bores with which the eye of the needle is adapted to be registered and said bores intersecting said slot and groove respectively, as regards the inner and outer wall, and a threading spindle adapted to be advanced against the thread to push the latter through the eye of the needle and the outer bore whereby the thread will be accessible to the user, substantially as described.

at. In a needle threading device, a casing having a socket formed of inner and outer walls to receive the eye end of a needle and the outer wall having a thread slot for passage of the thread theretlirough transversely across the socket, the outer wall having a bore intersecting the thread slot therein and the inner wall having a bore and the bores of the inner and outer walls being in alined relation, a crotched threading spindle adapted to be advanced through the bore of the inner wall to engage its crotch with the thread and thence push the thread through the eye of the needle and through the bore of the outer wall, said outer wall having means for engagement with a machine needle whereby the casing may be advanced against a machine needle to register the eye of the machine needle with the bore in the outer wall of the socket whereby a single needle threading spindle may be employed to either thread a hand needle or a machine needle, substantially as described.

5. A needle threading device, comprising in combination, a body and a lid adapted to telescope to form a substantially closed casing and portions of the telescoping walls of the body and lid being shaped to form a needle receiving socket, the lid and body walls of the socket portions having alined bores for projection therethrough of a thread pusher and the outer wall of the socket having a thread slot for projection of the thread therethrough across and against the inner wall of the socket, the inner wall of the socket having a thread groove in which the thread seats between the inner wall and the needle, said thread slot and groove intersecting the respective bores of said outer and inner walls of the socket, and a carrier reciprocable in said casing and having a thread pusher adapted to project the thread through the eye of the needle and through the outer bore into a position accessible to the user, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I hereby affiX my signature.

ELIZA V. MYERS.

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